I don't really understand what the purpose/desire is to having blogging capability in a forum software.
I'm sure there are valid reasons, I just can't seem to get my head around what they might be.
I can only speak for myself of course, but I run an automotive discussion forum and use subscriptions to provide different "benefits" for my users. Since most of my users are car enthusiasts, I offer blogs for a certain level of membership (Gold) so they can chronicle their car-related activities, for example). The blogs allow my members an easy way to have their own web space on my site and they are very popular. The problem is, I have to use a third party blog software. For me, it would be far better to have an integrated blog capability that has the look and feel of the rest of my forum.
My 2 cents.
